(no subject)

You know, I like Bones, I really do. It was the first crime procedural I got hooked on, and even now, after I've dropped NCIS, I've dropped Castle, I've dropped Hawaii Five-O, I've dropped Psych, but I'm still watching this season of Bones because I have a lot of affection for it and all its characters. And I really like the Bones-Booth dynamic in terms of the emotional/rational divide.

( Spoilers for tonight's episode )

In other words, Bones, I want to love you. It would be really easy for me to love you. Just stop punishing Bones for being awesome.

(no subject)

So a year ago (around?) I complained about the way Vampire Diaries tried to make Stefan ~mysteriously knowledgeable~ because he knew such dates as the years World War II and the Korean War started and ended, the year the Civil Rights Act passed, etc.

I felt that this should be common knowledge, or at least, not especially ~surprising~, given these are also dates/years I could have rattled off at his supposed high school age.

I was proven wrong last night, when 2-3 of my (law school-age!) classmates tried to argue with me that World War II ended in 1946.

This is like when I got annoyed with the heroine of Julie Kagawa's book (something faerie-related -- I don't remember the name of the book) because I felt that her best friend named Rob Goodfell --> quite obviously was Robin Goodfellow, a.k.a. Puck and similarly felt like this should be common knowledge and couldn't believe it was taking her SO LONG to figure this out.

Of course, things that other people consider common knowledge are things I have no clue about -- example: I'm still not terribly clear on who Cher is, just that people express shock when I admit this.